Re: coreutils CI

[Bruno Haible]

Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Gnulib commit 3f0950f65abb (2023-04-26) not only lead to build time
> issues, but also made e.g. coreutils' rm(1) fail:
> ...
> I can confirm that this gnulib commit d4d8abb39eb0 fixes the issue again.

Yep, mistakes do happen. Gnulib has stable branches that can protect some
packages from these breakages
<https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Stable-Branches.html>
but AFAIU coreutils frequently needs new features from Gnulib and therefore
cannot use the stable branches.

> I noticed the issue because the following "very-expensive" tests failed
> (which succeeded with coreutils-9.3):
> 
>    FAIL: tests/rm/ext3-perf
>    FAIL: tests/rm/many-dir-entries-vs-OOM

Did you notice these failures by chance, or do you run coreutils continuous
integration on a fixed schedule?

More generally, for which systems are coreutils continuous integrations being
run regularly? For which systems would it be useful to have it?

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ references
https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master but it seems that this
CI stopped working in 2021.

Bruno